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Differences in nitrogen cycling and in the nutrition of trees are significantly coupled to the levels of nitrogen input and to the nitrate levels in the soil solution. Relatively high nitrogen supply can cause unbalanced nutrition on sites which contain either low or moderate amounts of other nutrients. This is indicated by low cation/nitrogen ratios in foliage and also by the S/N ratio falling temporarily below 0.030.
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Kazda, M. Indications of unbalanced nitrogen nutrition of Norway spruce stands. Plant Soil 128, 97–101 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009401
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